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-he has gathered together everything that was to be 

 found in his time, and rolled it out in fine, respectable, 

 nay more, genteel language, grandiose and flowery in 

 the roundabout grammar of the period, when the 

 ornate Louis Quinze style in rhetoric was thought the 

 only thing fit for print. He gives this account of 

 Linnseus's travelling companions and their functions, 

 taken from the ' Hamburg News,' published some 

 months later. 



c Nasman, who had made himself known by a good 

 dissertation on the Dalecarlian language, was to act as 

 geographer ; to give an accurate description of all the 

 villages, mountains, lakes, rivers, roads, districts, &c. ; 

 to say morning and evening prayers ; and to preach on 

 Sundays. 



' Ciewberg, as naturalist, was to make observations 

 on the four elements, such as on the quality of the 

 water, on mineral springs, on sources, on the snow 

 which never melts in the Alps in summer; on the 

 height of the mountains, the weather, the fruitfulness 

 or sterility of soil, &c., and to act as secretary. 



' Faldstedt as metallist, besides collecting stones, 

 minerals, earths, and all kinds of petrifactions (more 

 .generally loved in those days than now Reuterholm 

 especially affected them) &c. : as groom he was to saddle, 

 water, and attend the horses. 



4 Sohllerg, an able student of physic, as botanist or 

 herbalist, was to examine and preserve as well as pos- 

 sible all the trees, plants, herbs, grasses, and fungi. 



